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Chalice of Patriarch Theoleptos II
Ottoman (Constantinople), 1580s
Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos Museum, Athens (1015)
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Mehmed II, called by some a new Constantine, after the Roman
emperor who founded Constantinople, appointed Gennadios II Scholarios
as Orthodox Patriarch. At the same time, the sultan transformed
the Orthodox patriarch’s seat, the great Church
of Hagia Sophia, into the Ottoman imperial mosque. From
1452 until 1586, the Ecumenical Patriarchate instead resided
in the Constantinopolitan Monastery
of the Virgin Pammakaristos, or the "All Praised"
Virgin. In 1586, this Late Byzantine monastic church was converted,
like Hagia Sophia, for use as a mosque, a common practice in
the Ottoman capital of Constantinople illustrating the Ottomans’
high regard for Byzantine architectural design. A remarkable
chalice, made for the Patriarch Theoleptos II (r. 1585–1587),
survives from this later history of the Patriarchate.
Themes in Late Byzantine Art
1. Introduction | 2. Peoples
of the Byzantine Sphere | 3. Visual
Expressions of the Faith | 4. The Byzantine Sphere and the
Islamic World | 5. The Byzantine Sphere and
the West
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